Policy, Technology, and Efficiency of Brazilian Agriculture

By Nicholas Rada and Constanza Valdes
The Brazilian agricultural sector has been transformed from a traditional system of production with low use of modern technologies to a world agricultural leader. That transformation occurred as the country moved away from import-substitution policies—which nurtured domestic industrial development at the expense of agriculture—toward market-oriented policy reforms. These reforms included openness to foreign trade and foreign investment and the use of new technologies, which led to a new growth pattern. To evaluate that transformation, the authors use agricultural censuses spanning 1985-2006 to characterize Brazilian total factor productivity growth, decomposing that growth into technical and efﬁciency changes. This report presents the ﬁndings of a study that focuses on the effect of Brazil’s science and technology investments and other public policies on farm production. The ﬁndings indicate that agricultural research beneﬁts have been most rapidly adopted by the most efﬁcient farms, widening the productivity gap between these farms and average farms. That gap, however, has been narrowed through other public policies, such as rural credit and infrastructure investments, that favor average producers.

Click here to read the complete articleSource:USDA, Economic Research Report No. (ERR-137) 43 pp, July 2012.
You also follow Labex Korea by Facebook and Twitter

2 responses to “Policy, Technology, and Efficiency of Brazilian Agriculture”

i am happy to find this post very useful for me, as it contains lot of information. i always prefer to read the quality content and this thing i found in your post. thanks for sharinghttp://www.acertemail.com